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Okay I must be old and feeble. I bought a pair thru Amazon for less money. Now have three. I find they do a far better job of controlling direction of stock both on the saw and on my router table. I recently built a large box using dovetail joints. I found the Grrripper made the project simpler and ...

I have used the OPR mounted below the headstock with no problems. I later decided a shorty dedicated to use for the OPR made better sense for me. I am short, old and have awful shoulders thus prefer dedicated equipment that eliminates lifting and set up. Jim

I can only imagine how many hours went into that really neat sewing box.
Congratulations. Jim

I have been forced by business needs to attempt keeping up with changing technology (fortunately with retirement those days are over). My saving grace being both of our children have worked most of their adult lives designing testing and repairing the technologies of this modern world. Add to that b...

Wow, once one reaches the webmaster the world is once again bright and sunny. I awoke this fine day with both email and a private message from the webmaster. While I walked the dog my bride made necessary changes. I can once again pollute this fine forum. My new laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15R. Althou...

Greetings, a couple of weeks ago my bride presented me with a new windows 8 laptop. When attempting to log in to this forum I discovered there are some issues in doing so. One appears to be that my email address for log in purposes has somehow reverted to an earthlink email address I haven't used in...

I have two 520's one parked directly behind the other and more extension tables than am am inclined to assemble. Yes I do occasionally cut full sheets of plywood on this arrangement. My preference is to back the pickup to the open garage door, set up my cutting table (takes less than a minute) then ...

My shop is in a dedicated, 24 7 temperature controlled space. Friends call it my man cave. I have a Jet air Filter, DC3300 dust collector and a fein vacuum. Yes I use my shop every day often for several hours at a time. Clean up is always a nuisance. Especially when turning. I had discovered the DC3...

I knew some sharp eyed woodyworker would pick up on that point thus I must now bore you with the second more complicated picture. Yes I did clamp both directions. The first picture was intended only for purpose of illustrating use of multiple clamps to span a long area. Then again I had intended tha...

Much can be said for pipe clamps in similar situations.:D I agree, in fact I reached for the pipe clamps first. When I was having fits attempting to extend the clamp length I looked at the clamp rack and decided the red ones would do the same job without requiring reconfiguring and then having to r...